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Very unpopular opinions about Gone Girl (the film because it's very different from the book).
Nick didn't feel remorse for cheating on Amy. The shit he said in the interview was a ploy to get her out of hiding to clear his name. He was manipulating her. Nothing he said in that interview was truthful (like I'm pretty sure he later admits)
Amy was a ticking time bomb. There were already hints that Amy was dropping her Cool Girl persona since they moved to Missouri. Even if Nick didn't cheat, sooner or later, she would have gone-girl-ed his ass.
Nick also had the equivalent of a Cool Girl persona. The recession led him to drop it.
Amy telling Nick she got her parents out of debt with her trust fund mirrors when Nick moved them to Missouri. With out consulting the other party and not letting them voice their opinion. It showed that they both contributed to the unhealthiness of the relationship.
Amy was always in control of the relationship, especially when things were going to shit. She owned his job, probably the house and controlled all the finances. Pretty sure Nick's whole upset with the prenup thing is that Amy does control the finances.
Desi Collings is just like Amy just in a different font.
Nick was not as bad as Amy IN THE MOVIE. I know, crucify me. He's a cheat, lazy, has no ambitions, slightly misogynistic, sleeps with his student who is half his age. But, none of these are crimes (Andie was over the age of consent but's it's immoral. He's a pig). Amy commits crimes and wastes police resources. She kills a man not in self-defence, fakes a rape accusation, (tries to) frames Nick for kidnapping and murdering her, stole his sperm and impregnated herself. Plus, she's also slightly misogynistic and classist. Movie!Nick and Movie!Amy are not comparable. Yes, they are both awful people but Amy defiantly is the worst. Book Nick seems to be just as bad. Again book doesn't equal movie.
Amy was always a psychopath saying Nick drove her to psychopathy or any other version of this is quite dumb ngl and ignores Tommy O'Hara. Hell, her actions with Tommy makes me even more sure even if Nick didn't cheat she still would have punished him.
I truly believe Nick did want to leave her. It is said by Amy herself that she knew he wanted a divorce. Nick was shown to want to leave during the end of the movie. Literally, the only reason he stayed was because of the child, the whole outrage that would follow (Interestingly, this could be seen as Nick's own preoccupation of controlling his image).
Amy is the more unreliable narrator compared to Nick mainly due to Nick having a voice of reason, Margo, while Amy doesn't. (Unless I'm under his spell. But I don't think so because I hate Ben in the DCEU and that colors my perception across franchises. Came into this movie full expected to hate Nick as much as Amy or more so but left surprised.)
While I understand uprooting one's life and moving across the country with out the other partners input is quite upsetting and can make you feel like shit. A person was dying. Amy's feelings are valid but like. Cancer? Taking care of dying mother? Amy expected Nick to be OK with a huge financial decision to help her parents, make some allowance. Rubbed me the wrong way. I'm a family gal.
Amy may have loved Nick at one point, kinda like Nick loved Amy at one point, but she ultimately sees relationships and love as a form of winning. This seems to stem from her childhood as she was always one step behind Amazing Amy. All her mistakes were washed away clean in Amazing Amy and sold to the masses. Everyone could see just would Amy couldn't do. Because of this, Amy doesn't see herself as a person as much as a character in a story, expect this time she controls it. She's going to have a picture perfect marriage and thus life. Thus she wins at life. This is also very half-baked and formed by one watch of the movie.
Amy wasn't abused by Nick. Amy fictionalized most of their life in Missouri(She's an unreliable narrator). Like it was revealed that Nick hated Amy and that he wanted kids while Amy didn't. The whole "Let's have kids" fight seems very improbably with this information. Unless I'm under Nick's influence. Plus, Amy doesn't seem that afraid of Nick even when he is violent with her.
The Cool Girl monologue while hits some true points to the idea that society values woman to change themselves to be picked by a man. But it also implies a heteronormative society, implies that woman absolutely cannot like shit like football on their own as they are only doing it for men, acts as if liking things are unnatural for woman, makes sexist judgment of random woman she literally passes who are hopefully living their best life, and is sex negative.
preemptive warning because fandoms can be really toxic for some reason. Don't interact if you don't like.
#gone girl the movie#nick dunne#amy elliot dunne#personal opinions#anti amy elliot dunne#anti nick dunne#but he's my favorite character strangely enough#I should read the book#but that won't change my opinions on movie!nick#sympathetic to nick dunne#fuck desi collings#all my homies had desi collings#gone girl#any hate is not tolerated.#any other unpopular opinions on gone girl please add
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have you ever read the book "this is how you lose the time war"? because i'm rereading it and all i can think about now is raised a sith anakin and jedi knight extraordinaire obi-wan leaving fucked up little notes to each other across space and time that are only opened via force tricks and explosions who are constantly reaching for and thwarting each other in equal measure
I haven't read it, I'm sorry! I hear good things! But I see you've chatted with a few other obikin people too which is smart. From what little I know and from what you've written here it does sound like a fun idea. Do they (Obi-Wan and Anakin rather than the characters in the book) actually meet in person? Or is it all notes? Either way would be interesting!
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how insane would it be for me to write american psycho fanfiction. asking for a friend
#tag for me talking#just saying i could delve deep into that freaks mind#my hyperfixation on that movie died forever ago but my love for it will never stop !#i should read the book
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day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.
#I AM GOING INSANE#what am i supposed to do??#’you should work on your WIP’ NO I CANTTT#‘ read actual books on your real bookshelf’ NUH UH#ao3#archive of our own#i’m tagging ships#malec#destiel#hannigram#jonmartin#tomgreg#kenstewy#imagine all the fics i could be reading rn
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Crowley really fights for his life every time he tries to read something
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+ honorable mentions:
#that's it guys anthony 'i don't read books' j crowley just can't see shit <3#do you think he ever borrows aziraphale's glasses bc i think he should#good omens#goodomensedit#good omens edit#crowley#david tennant
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ive just watched "East of Eden", and I havent seen any other James Dean movies so maybe im totally off the mark here, but in this movie he brought a sort of awkward autistic melancholy to being a massive movie star that you just dont see in big actors these days. Im a fan of it.
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aftg is probably the only fandom in which the fans do not recommend the books to others
#aftg fan: talks a lot about aftg /x: should i read it? / aftg fan: no#its always trying to convince your friends to read your favourite book#but not with aftg#and i think thats precious#unique#aftg#all for the game#nora sakavic#all for the gay#fandoms
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♡ my DREAMBOY ♡
#can you tell im obsessed?#this interview made me love him even more like if thats even possible#dreamboy was so out of it and i FEEL the same 🤣#anyways i love him#he should read me a book#if i say it enough it will happen maybe#joe keery#steve harrington#djo#gator tillman#lockscreens#?#sean lockwood#baron lamram#walter mckey#joekeeryedit#steveharringtonedit
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Four friends, four treasures.
#pokemon#pokemon sv#pokemon scarlet and violet#pokemon scarlet fanart#pokemon scarvi#pokemon scarvio#nemona#nemona pokemon#arven#arven pokemon#penny#penny pokemon#coming in with scarlet dominance#there's so much violet stuff im like#what about scarlet :(#whenever there's SV art and it is scarlet fanart it's always juliana#i played as the boy so I decided to make it florian#anyways these games were so good I cried#it was so fun like so so so fun#I think people should go read all the books in the game#there's a lot of tidbits of lore in the books#bonus fact I tried to represent the league members#with the marks above the compass#spoiler warning for people reading my tags#the obvious one is poppy's and larry's is the rectangle#hassel is the second biggest#rika is far left it used to be more noticeable#that it was drawn looser than the others but not so much anymore#geeta is the biggest obv#my art
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sometimes I think of all the on-the-surface warm, well-meaning but deeply ineffectual advice and attention john gives harrow through harrow the ninth (make some soup and get some sleep! get a hobby! don't be so hard on yourself! self care harrow! as long as I need take no actual responsibility in this relationship whatsoever I would have loved to be your dad!) set up against the stark truth that with his other hand he has been staging her attempted horrific murder again and again and again like a living nightmare on the logic that it will 'put her down or fix her'. and then I find that I wish there is a hell. a special hell where twitch streamers turned necromantic death emperors go
#the locked tomb#harrowhark nonagesimus#john gaius#harrow the ninth#this is why I don't buy john as misunderstood and initially well-meaning AT ALL#this is a pattern you see with him again and again and again -- right down to his interpersonal relationships#(and indeed it's in the more grounded interpersonal relationships you can most clearly see him as he is I think#the fantasy death empire of a thousand years doesn't register quite as viscerally because it's like. heightened; not quite real#but the emotional violence and manipulation that surrounds him? oh boy that is EXTREMELY real and scarily well-observed)#there's a premeditation to so much of what he does (contracts with planets that only end 'in the event of the emperor's death' anyone?#yeah john we get it you're hilarious and I wish you weren't)#the greatest trick john ever pulled was making anyone think he's just a lil guy. what does he know he's only god#when you first read the book the complete callousness of the other adults is so horrible that john seems like an oasis of care#(though you start to get this uneasy feeling when that care never seems to translate to like... relief or soothing or resolution)#and it makes it feel almost obscene when you find out what's actually going on#it's the mercy & augustine enabler hour but at least they're completely honest in their cruelty there#while john is -- well he sure is being john huh#this is just me being angry with him btw philosophically I don't think this is how the story will or should end#(with john slam dunked right into hell that is)#it's just... harrow is so vulnerable. and what he does to her is so insidious and fucked up#john is very deeply human. unfortunately the capacity to quite simply suck so much is deeply human too
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still so charmed by that time i picked up a series of unfortunate events as a kid and the back was like IF YOU WANT A HAPPY STORY THIS IS NOT THE ONE FOR YOU… YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED… PUT IT DOWN AND PICK UP ANOTHER BOOK… and so i, wanting a happy story, simply put it down and picked up another book
#and now i still haven’t read it#do you guys think it’s too late or should i pick it up now that im not. 10#a series of unfortunate events#books#notnow
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hgrng...thinking of love
#mine#original#yes i realise i keep posting felttip cats but. they are fun#my sketchbook is just felt tip cats. almost exclusively#ive had a DAY. some how spent 3 hours sitting at my laptop and achieved nothing#trying to find answers to technical problems. i once had 20 tabs open and i was like okay i should like. have lunch#also my mum kept talkin abt my childhood n i was like. almost completely dissociating..mental illness >:)#i have headache >:(#but now is weekend...hehe.....its gna be warm tomorrow im going to read my book#i would LIKE to finish it....maybe i will....can i read 300 pages in one day mm maybe not#i feel like this book is gna end in tears. hmm.#okay im going to bed now goodnight!#going to play rainworld hehehhehehe#song rec of the day is bible belt my dry the river#song rec is also the NEW mcr song. hohfhbgdfgk
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...to be fair I do this while it's in sitting mode, too. Can't escape The Elbow Lean, RIP to my back.
ETA: before anyone says it, my vision is perfect, it's been checked, I'm just incapable of posture
#my art#tfw you stand up to avoid terrible posture in a terrible chair and then notice your posture followed you there#that 'monitor riser' is actually three of my thickest books lol#while my laptop is on the divine comedy and the chicago manual of style#my monitor lives on Mariposa Road the collected Jeeves stories and American Warblers#Two of the latter I haven't actually read yet because they've just become my monitor stand#I should. swap those out so I can read them sometime lol
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"rn I feel like reading about someone's quiet daily life, maybe a diary or letters, set in a place or context I don't know much about, without turmoil or tragedy" oh! do you have any recommendations for books like this?
This is one of my favourite types of books! Here are 30(ish) recs...
May Sarton's The House by the Sea or Plant Dreaming Deep
Gyrðir Elíasson's Suðurglugginn / La fenêtre au sud (not translated into English unfortunately!), also Bergsveinn Birgisson's Landslag er aldrei asnalegt / Du temps qu'il fait (exists in German too)
Gretel Ehrlich's The Solace of Open Spaces, which iirc was originally written as journal entries and letters before being adapted into a book
Kenneth White's House of Tides: Letters from Brittany and Other Lands of the West
Sei Shonagon's Pillow Book
The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E. M. Delafield
Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth von Arnim (do not read if you don't like flowers)
The Road Through Miyama by Leila Philip (I've mentioned it before, it feels like this gif)
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating, I keep recommending this one but it's so nice and I love snails
Epicurean Simplicity, Stephanie Mills
The Light in the Dark: A winter journal by Horatio Clare
The Letters of Rachel Henning
The letters of Tove Jansson, also The Summer Book and Fair Play
The diary of Sylvia Townsend Warner—here's an entry where she describes some big cats at the zoo. "Frank and forthcoming, flirtatious carnivores, [...] guttersnipishly loveable"
The Letters of Rachel Carson & Dorothy Freeman were very sweet and a little bit gay. I mostly remember from this long book I read years ago that Rachel Carson once described herself as "retiring into her shell like a periwinkle at low tide" and once apologised to Dorothy because she had run out of apple-themed stationery.
Jane Austen's letters (quoting the synopsis, "Wiser than her critics, who were disappointed that her correspondence dwelt on gossip and the minutiae of everyday living, Austen understood the importance of "Little Matters," of the emotional and material details of individual lives shared with friends and family")
Madame de Sévigné's letters because obviously, and from the same time period, the letters of the Princess Palatine, Louis XIV's sister-in-law. I read them a long time ago and mostly I remember that I enjoyed her priorities. There's a letter where she complains that she hasn't received the sausages she was promised, and then in the next paragraph, mentions the plot to assassinate the King of England and also, the Tartars are walking on Vienna currently.
Wait I found it:
R.C. Sherriff's The Fortnight in September (quoting the author, "I wanted to write about simple, uncomplicated people doing normal things")
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
Pond, Claire-Louise Bennett
Rules for Visiting, Jessica Francis Kane
The following aren't or aren't yet available in English, though some have already been translated in 5-6 languages:
ツバキ文具店 / La papeterie Tsubaki by ito Ogawa
半島へ / La péninsule aux 24 saisons by Mayumi Inaba
Giù la piazza non c'è nessuno, Dolores Prato (for a slightly more conceptual take on the "someone's everyday life" theme—I remember it as quite Proustian in its meticulousness, a bit like Nous les filles by Marie Rouanet which is much shorter and more lighthearted but shows the same extreme attention to childhood details)
Journal d'un homme heureux, Philippe Delerm, my favourite thing about this book is that the goodreads commenter who gave it the lowest rating complained that Delerm misidentified a wine as a grenache when actually it's a cabernet sauvignon. Important review!
Un automne à Kyôto, Corinne Atlan (I find her writing style so lovely)
oh and 西の魔女が死んだ / L’été de la sorcière by Kaho Nashiki —such a little Ghibli film of a book. There's a goodreads review that points out that Japanese slice-of-life films and books have "a certain way of describing small, everyday actions in a soothing, flawless manner that can either wear you out, or make you look at the world with a temporary glaze of calm contentment and introspective understanding [...]"
I'd be happy to get recommendations in this 'genre' as well :)
#book recs#i should have posted this ages ago but i was waiting to finish the book i was reading to see if it#should be added to the list#but in the end it wasn't worthy#sorry for the delay!
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i know you could explain it all with rule of funny or ''they did it on purpose as a gag'' but
sans has the uncanny ability to read your face like a book and know exactly what you're thinking with a glance. he also constantly misses papyrus' jokes and treats them like genuine questions.
papyrus talks to you over the phone and somehow manages to conceptualize where you are and what you're doing from your tone alone. if, however, you gave him a picture of asgore and toriel, the only way he could tell them apart would be by their clothes.
tone-deaf sans/face blind papyrus. they're both autistic in perfectly mirrored ways so when they talk they keep missing each other by a hairbreadth
#papyrus jokingly: why should i buy ice cream when we've got ice cream everywhere on the ground!#sans (thinks he's being genuine): oh that's uh. snow#papyrus (thinks he's ruining his joke on purpose): UGH. WHATEVER.#autism is stored in the skeletons#undertale#sans#papyrus#they can read everyone like a book. except one another. comedy fields cancelling each other
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